rapaciousness

Other forms of rapaciousness

plural

rapaciousnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rapaciousness

What does rapaciousness mean?

rapaciousness means "extreme gluttony". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rapaciousness?

rapaciousness has 5 syllables: ra-pa-ci-ou-sness. The stress falls on "ci".

What is another word for rapaciousness?

Close synonyms include edacity, esurience, rapacity, voracity, voraciousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rapaciousness a common word?

rapaciousness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.